“Oh! How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”As You Like It. W. Shakespeare.

“Of good and evil much they argued then,Of happiness and final misery,Passion and apathy, and glory and shame,Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.”Paradise Lost. John Milton.

Happiness is an emotion that can only be felt to exist by the mind that produces it.The conditions of happiness will only be discovered when the workings of the mind are understood. Until then to state they do not exist is, to say the least, premature.

Love this! It's an optical delusion that happiness is produced by outer circumstances- like winning the lottery, eating chocolate ice cream, or acquiring a nugget of knowledge. We get the ice cream and then we stop desiring for a moment...It's the release of restless seeking for a moment that unmasks innate happiness, but this is mistakenly attributed to the ice cream. Jean Klein communicates this with clarity. Thanks for another electric aphorism!